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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Global networks"”.
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Global Networks of Relief and the Great Irish Famine
This dissertation examines global networks of relief that were active during the Great Irish Famine. In particular, it analyses networks facilitated by the British Empire, global Catholicism, the Irish diaspora, and transnational activist groups. In so doing, it traces the social and economic …
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FROM NATIONAL LINES TO GLOBAL NETWORKS: STRATEGIC COUPLING AND EVOLVING STATE-FIRM DYNAMICS IN SINGAPORE’S TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
… the concept of ‘strategic coupling’ in the global production network (GPN) approach, this thesis addresses this lacuna by examining the evolving state-firm relations underpinning the globalisation of Singapore’s telecommunications industry since the 1980s. From a centralised monopoly …
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Urban climate resilience : a global assessment of city adaptation plans
… comparing municipal plans created to "battle" a global problem at the local level. Incorporating capitals and megacities from both the developed and developing worlds, this analysis studies whether municipal responses to the impacts of climate change adhere to the conventional understanding of …
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Planning for international collaboration in higher education: a case study of a multi-institutional degree program
… enacted or manifested on specific nodes of the global higher education network. The objective of this research is to examine the planning process of a multi-institutional graduate degree program in engineering between a research institution in the US and in Singapore, a new model of …
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An Analysis of Commerce and Personal Identities at the Pearl Fishing Settlement of Muharraq Town, Bahrain, 1600-1950 AD.
… also saw the integration of the region into global networks connected to Europe, urban expansion and population increase. This period and the Gulf region have been neglected in archaeological studies of the Islamic world, especially regarding the archaeology of identity. This thesis explores …
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Corporate Innovation Subsidiaries: A Framework for Knowledge Transfer
… than previously suggested; • Considering global networks of subsidiaries brings added complexities. This study makes two contributions. Firstly, a holistic conceptual framework for knowledge transfer from corporate innovation subsidiaries to their headquarters is developed, illustrating …
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Co-creating an art-based livelihood development in West Bengal: an actor-oriented ethnographic approach
… is that being positioned in between local and global networks means that social enterprises are well positioned to act as social change agents; however, co-created models reinforce top-down development structures rather than challenging them. The findings from this study make several …
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Get yourself connected: time, space, and character networks in David Mitchell's fiction
… he uses his narratives to emulate and remediate global networks and contemporary fiction tropes. Though his novels are rarely set in the immediate present, Mitchell's creations are connected in ways that specifically evoke social networks, Internet databases and new media. He has created an …
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An attention-enhanced student–teacher framework for structural and logical anomaly detection in industrial settings
… benchmark. Specifically, AeCSAD employs a global student network with self-attention for reasoning across distant components, complemented by a local student network for fine-grained analysis. Additionally, a patch histogram module measures the frequency distribution of components, allowing …
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Rhode Island's Wars: Imperial Conflicts and Provincial Self-Interests in the Ocean Colony, 1739–48
… these interests exhibit the Atlantic and global networks that the smallest of the New England colonies was situated in. These two different sets of concerns, the political and economic, sometimes clashed and at other times combined as politicians, merchants, sailors, soldiers, and citizens …
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"""The face of things"": the posthumanist imagination in eighteenth-century Britain"
… animals, diseases, and automata—facilitated by global networks of commerce and science. Throughout the project, I argue that such transactions that reckon the agency and vitality of ""things""—the broadly construed nonhuman—led British writers like Defoe, Swift, and Barbauld to question …
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Topology of spatial texture in the acousmatic medium
… materiality, states and processes, motion, global networks and terrains, and relationships between space and time. Emphasis is put on visual and physical connections with spatiality in the acousmatic experience: cogency in spatial structure and dynamics reinforces links among modalities. The …
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Advocacy Under Authoritarianism: Transnational Networks in China
… theoretical account of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) is one of principled non-state actors remaking world politics by upsetting conventional notions of power in the international system. Relying on persuasion and framing instead of disruption and protest, these global networks of …
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Visualising Creative Destruction: A Photographic Study of Urban Change in Salford, UK
… prevalent commodity form. The study grounds the global networks of investment, highlighting how the international commodification of housing operates locally, facilitated by the City Council’s entrepreneurial model to enact housing development. Employing documentary and expanded photographic …
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Startup Futures: Entrepreneurs, Investors and Imaginaries of Care in Global India
… citizenship and aspirations of belonging to a global community. Entrepreneurial actions interweave state policy and global networks of capital, creating new ways of conceptualizing value in self, business, and socio-cultural life. These emergent movements, which are continually unfolding, …
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World market governance
… in trouble. The market economy system has become global and there is a growing mismatch with the territoriality of the nation-states. The functional global networks and inter-governmental order can no longer keep pace with the rapid development of the global market economy and regulatory capture …
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Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance
… feminisms, I find that these works reveal the global through its impact on the local and—when set outside the United States—reveal the global through careful storytelling that avoids monoliths and calls out global forces and audiences’ implicit and explicit role in oppressions. My study centers …
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A atuação nordestina na Rede Mercocidades
… Thus, as a way to reduce the negative impacts of globalization, and augment local productivity, it was sought in regional integration the solution for these problems. Soon, the same manner that countries are organized into economic blocs, localities interacted and formed national, international, …
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Thwarting Electromagnetic Fault Injection Attack Utilizing Timing Attack Countermeasure
… Also, effects of EM glitches on the global networks of a chip such as power, clock and reset network are not known. We believe to properly model EMFI and develop effective countermeasures, a deeper understanding of the EM effect on a chip is needed. In this thesis, we present a …
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The transportation of convicts from the Madras Presidency to the Straits Settlements, 1789 - 1860
… East India Company’s prisons and its coercive networks that extended across the Indian Ocean, convicts were orientated to prison discipline and rules. Their lives and experiences from the moment of their conviction to their transfer to zillah prisons and their journey from zillah prisons to …
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